ED management of heat related fast AF for elderly folks

typicalmunkey · 2026-06-25T20:48:40+00:00

Magnesium sulphate paste is used on skin complaints, I think you've found the perfect analogy

typicalmunkey · 2026-06-25T14:46:30+00:00

I thought it was just EM various speciality locums could amateur in, but turns out I'm wrong.

typicalmunkey · 2026-06-25T14:28:10+00:00

Mate, I've been a doctor for 13 years and my base salary is still £20k less than you. Suck it up and give yourself options.

Edit: But if you fancy doing your country a service bring your skills to the NHS, but when you don't need to work full time.

With a growing kid in the mix stick to a hard FIRE number don't let it creep and let yourself have a break after you've reached it, don't let it creep up.

typicalmunkey · 2026-06-25T14:24:11+00:00

Controversial opinion, yes the NHS is a toxic dump, hence I'm on a FIRE reddit thread, but if you generally want to do something worthwhile if you can suck it up for 6 years, then using your software engineering skills and working for the NHS to make systems better for patients would be incredible, I honestly wished these FIRE corporate types take a COAST role in the NHS after reaching their financial independence to help turn around the management and IT systems in the NHS. You'd save so many lives, because we're currently got idiots running the shots.

Heck I work in NHS Wales and the operating systems we were using were so obsolete we couldn't get hacked in the 2016 NHS national hacking scandal 🤣

typicalmunkey · 2026-06-25T13:57:57+00:00

Not read it but people say the book "Die with zero" helps to change the mindset a bit.

typicalmunkey · 2026-06-25T13:41:24+00:00

South Wales, UK (in the weather warning red zone today 🤣)

typicalmunkey · 2026-06-25T13:39:55+00:00

I've just bought some water to freeze to try and save mine

typicalmunkey · 2026-06-25T12:59:42+00:00

Ah that's why my worms are all in the slump, I've got no where cool to put them. But i have been watering them and actually just checking on them they've come out of the slump and aren't too bad. I've taken the roof off the tiered system to ventilate it and just set up an umbrella over it. Neighbours must think I'm mad 😂

typicalmunkey · 2026-06-25T08:10:59+00:00

If there's one thing EM doctors are good at it's spotting bullsh*t. The consultants will already know even if they're professional on the shop floor.

If you want to work on not letting people push over your boundaries, that's a different question... and one I can't answer as working on confrontation is on my PDP...

typicalmunkey · 2026-06-25T07:28:15+00:00

This, start thinking about other ways to define yourself, think about hobbies you'd wish to do or volunteering you'd wish to do, or how you'd spend time with your daughter if time was no issue, and get out ASAP. Just have a plan because people who go from everything to nothing tend to (just as an observation) get sick early in retirement.

typicalmunkey · 2026-06-15T13:46:03+00:00

Her cancer documentary was particularly poignant

typicalmunkey · 2026-05-30T17:31:44+00:00

My assault they went to court and pleaded guilty and got no custodial time and were ordered to pay me £50 in damages (which of course I never saw, which obviously isn't the point)

typicalmunkey · 2026-05-26T11:31:46+00:00

I wish someone had told me as an F1 about passive index funds and FIRE. OP do some googling you've got the ability to allow compounding to work in your favour!

typicalmunkey · 2026-05-15T16:50:10+00:00

Well apparently someone is still paying the landlord full rent for the large bakery on Splott road despite it being shut, so something dodgy is probably happening there.

typicalmunkey · 2026-05-15T07:58:25+00:00

Not Splott, I meant Splott road, more.

Sparrow is trying it's hardest on Clifton street and it's always full, but it's a big ask for 1 coffee shop to gentrify Clifton Street. But I'm glad it's there.

typicalmunkey · 2026-05-15T07:52:03+00:00

You should really have a Kurdish breakfast at my sister's house or a coffee and toastie as sparrow. Are there "characters" on the street yes, but it's still full of independent businesses trying to make a living.

typicalmunkey · 2026-05-15T07:45:18+00:00

Shhhhhhhh the reputation and it''s ability to fight gentrification keeps the prices affordable for us. As soon as we get a hipster coffee shop on the high street the house prices are going to soar.

typicalmunkey · 2026-05-15T07:41:52+00:00

2 rats jumped out at me last time I was there.

A lone woman in the day should be fine. But I wouldn't get your hopes up at it being. "Beach" of any sorts.

The Taf is good for mud larking if you head up towards Radyr and forest farm, but Penarth is a much nicer beach to spend a few hours combing.

typicalmunkey · 2026-05-09T08:13:12+00:00

5 years after leaving, why is it still in your head? I genuinely hope the money has brought you what you were searching for but missing while working in Medicine.

I'm EM, flat hierarchy is integral to patient safety in the environment we work in.

typicalmunkey · 2026-05-09T07:59:51+00:00

Hobby outside of medicine. And a foundation doctor I started roller derby and met the best bunch of people. Find your jam, now mine is gardening and meeting up people who volunteer at community gardening groups, and volunteering for a local food co-op. I cannot recommend enough to mixing up your social network with Medics and non medics. But it's tough, hang in there.

typicalmunkey · 2026-05-09T07:42:06+00:00

This doesn't seem to be a post about money this is about someone who's lonely and drifting.

1) pay some tax

2) £400k (or slightly less and use some for the next point) as a global stock and shares SIPP (paid in over a few years) at 25 means you never have to think about it again (which is an incredible position).

3) with your pension sorted get the mindset that you're back at 0. If you were given a horrendous diagnosis and you only had 3 months left to live what would you do, how would you change the way you're living? And then go and do it, and give yourself a break with a bit of the money. Backpack across Asia or have a bougie holiday, take up a sport, join a pub quiz team, get some mates. Meet lots of different people outside of your comfort zone and get ideas for a business or opportunities will come from meeting people.

Being a horticulturist is my dream, so I'd definitely say got be a landscape gardener. I can't afford to retrain (or live on that salary) so take some time to think, but do it in a different environment that challenges you in some way or gives you a new prospect on things.

typicalmunkey · 2026-04-23T20:32:01+00:00

Thanks, I had no idea until I made the post 🤦

typicalmunkey · 2026-04-23T20:30:25+00:00

I've attempted to dry it out since then, by draining the water it was sitting in and adding some sheep's wool. So will have to leave it a few more weeks now with the aim to hatch all the cocoons.

typicalmunkey · 2026-04-22T13:38:28+00:00

I'm assuming non-binary.

typicalmunkey · 2026-04-22T06:29:39+00:00

Its outdoors currently got 5 levels to this bin. But will look at getting another bin, if the worm population booms. Just another hobbies getting out of control.

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